1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:00,600 Okay. 2 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,150 We're going to go ahead and move on to part number two. 3 00:00:03,270 --> 00:00:06,390 You can go ahead and look at your screen for part number two. 4 00:00:06,420 --> 00:00:11,550 Make sure you have paper in front of you and a pen or pencil so you can take notes. 5 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:12,750 All right. 6 00:00:17,510 --> 00:00:21,140 You'll be given one minute to review the topic card and take notes. 7 00:00:21,170 --> 00:00:24,710 Afterwards, you'll be given 2 minutes to give your response. 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,980 I will be using a two minute timer to time. 9 00:00:27,980 --> 00:00:28,800 Your response? 10 00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:34,360 You won't be able to see that timer because on the real exam you can't see a timer or use a timer. 11 00:00:38,820 --> 00:00:39,360 All right. 12 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:46,890 So describe an important item that has been kept in your family for a long time. 13 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:49,640 Please say, what is it? 14 00:00:49,650 --> 00:00:50,970 Why is it important? 15 00:00:50,970 --> 00:00:52,500 How long did you have it? 16 00:00:52,530 --> 00:00:54,450 Explain how you feel about it. 17 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,550 You have one minute to take notes. 18 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:01,510 Okay. 19 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:02,570 Time is up. 20 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:08,600 You now have 2 minutes to deliver your response and you may begin speaking now. 21 00:02:10,550 --> 00:02:11,150 All right. 22 00:02:11,150 --> 00:02:20,870 I think that the most important is and that we have in my family is a silver chain that is really important 23 00:02:20,870 --> 00:02:21,550 for us. 24 00:02:21,570 --> 00:02:29,060 But it was a gift that gave me my mother when I was a child, and I give it since then. 25 00:02:30,050 --> 00:02:31,130 I remember that. 26 00:02:31,820 --> 00:02:38,170 Five I had a car accident and I put that silver in my face. 27 00:02:38,180 --> 00:02:38,720 What? 28 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,720 That that chain has. 29 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:42,860 Jesus Christ. 30 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,720 And my mother is a very religious woman. 31 00:02:48,250 --> 00:02:56,690 Well, she used to go to the church every every Sunday, but before the pandemic and pray for the family. 32 00:02:57,170 --> 00:03:02,360 So she used to to have a good faith. 33 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:06,500 And she gave me, oh, I believe in that faith, too. 34 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:17,180 For me, when I have that shame, I feel like I am strong and my mother is with me. 35 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:26,090 Actually, now I try to don't use it because I am afraid that maybe I can lose I on the street or something 36 00:03:26,090 --> 00:03:32,750 similar because it's a little old and it could be broken at any time. 37 00:03:36,020 --> 00:03:39,290 It's this chain is not important for the material. 38 00:03:39,380 --> 00:03:40,460 It's a silver chain. 39 00:03:40,460 --> 00:03:46,370 But we have a good faith of it, especially for my mother. 40 00:03:46,370 --> 00:03:46,790 I don't know. 41 00:03:46,790 --> 00:03:50,330 I feel that where I use it, I am with her. 42 00:03:56,970 --> 00:03:57,380 Oh, my God. 43 00:03:57,390 --> 00:03:58,800 You don't know how long I did it. 44 00:04:01,980 --> 00:04:03,810 Okay, well, we'll start right there. 45 00:04:03,810 --> 00:04:06,540 You had you had about 20 seconds left, actually. 46 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:08,410 Okay. 47 00:04:09,010 --> 00:04:09,730 Well, I'll talk. 48 00:04:09,790 --> 00:04:10,660 I'll talk to you. 49 00:04:11,290 --> 00:04:13,330 I'll talk to you about that after we get finished. 50 00:04:13,390 --> 00:04:15,160 Let's go ahead and move on to part number three. 51 00:04:16,420 --> 00:04:19,450 You should not be looking at the screen again for part number three. 52 00:04:21,250 --> 00:04:21,810 All right. 53 00:04:21,820 --> 00:04:22,510 I'll be there. 54 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:28,840 In part number three, I'm going to ask you some of the questions that are related to part number two. 55 00:04:30,250 --> 00:04:30,880 Okay. 56 00:04:31,060 --> 00:04:31,390 All right. 57 00:04:31,390 --> 00:04:33,760 So let's talk a little bit about history. 58 00:04:35,050 --> 00:04:37,900 Do you think history is important? 59 00:04:39,270 --> 00:04:40,670 Oh, yes, for sure. 60 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:48,180 Especially because if you know your history, you can learn about the mistake that some people did in 61 00:04:48,180 --> 00:04:50,760 the past and try to do it better in the future. 62 00:04:53,620 --> 00:04:57,490 And some people say you can learn a lot from history. 63 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:58,450 Do you agree? 64 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,330 Yes, I suppose that. 65 00:05:04,330 --> 00:05:05,290 Yes. 66 00:05:07,210 --> 00:05:07,950 I don't 67 00:05:11,430 --> 00:05:15,790 I don't I don't know what to say about that, actually. 68 00:05:16,860 --> 00:05:17,430 Okay. 69 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:18,780 Next question. 70 00:05:18,810 --> 00:05:23,700 Is it possible to use technology to teach history to children? 71 00:05:25,150 --> 00:05:33,910 Yes, because it's not much different if you do it with a bad book or with a computer. 72 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:41,590 But if you ask me for me, the best way to learn about history is to go to a museum. 73 00:05:41,860 --> 00:05:42,550 Museum? 74 00:05:43,780 --> 00:05:51,700 In the background, you can learn a lot and for sure it will be more, more fun and they will enjoy 75 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:52,120 more. 76 00:05:52,150 --> 00:05:54,310 You can enjoy it while you are learning. 77 00:05:55,220 --> 00:05:55,670 All right. 78 00:05:55,670 --> 00:05:59,210 And can history explain the present? 79 00:06:00,730 --> 00:06:02,080 Yes, for sure. 80 00:06:02,260 --> 00:06:04,720 Because he is. 81 00:06:06,310 --> 00:06:07,000 I don't know. 82 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:13,000 With the history, you can learn how you get in the place that you are right now. 83 00:06:13,570 --> 00:06:22,450 Maybe your parents were someday from another place or your grandparents or, I don't know, maybe more 84 00:06:22,450 --> 00:06:24,400 generations in the past. 85 00:06:24,850 --> 00:06:28,840 And you can learn how they reach some place. 86 00:06:28,990 --> 00:06:30,580 Where are you there right now? 87 00:06:32,490 --> 00:06:33,240 All right. 88 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:33,930 All right. 89 00:06:33,930 --> 00:06:35,390 Thank you very much, Louise. 90 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:36,570 That will do it. 91 00:06:36,570 --> 00:06:37,860 That's the end of the test. 92 00:06:37,890 --> 00:06:44,430 That's pretty much how the real exam goes, is about 15 to 17 minutes long. 93 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,850 And they'll take you through each part exactly like that. 94 00:06:47,850 --> 00:06:49,740 Part one, part two, part three. 95 00:06:50,730 --> 00:07:00,330 Now, I am going to give you some initial feedback in terms of, according to the rubric, you're graded 96 00:07:00,330 --> 00:07:08,370 on fluency and coherence, lexical resource, which means vocabulary, grammatical range and accuracy. 97 00:07:08,370 --> 00:07:12,000 And then and then finally agree on your pronunciation. 98 00:07:12,750 --> 00:07:16,320 At your weakest area. 99 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:17,970 Do you know your weakest area? 100 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,950 Let me ask you that before I before I answer. 101 00:07:20,130 --> 00:07:21,260 Do you know your weakest area? 102 00:07:21,270 --> 00:07:25,680 What do you think your weakest area is and what? 103 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,300 I need to improve. 104 00:07:27,750 --> 00:07:28,170 I know. 105 00:07:28,170 --> 00:07:32,970 I'm saying from those from those four criteria, fluency and coherence. 106 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,440 Number one, lexical. 107 00:07:34,770 --> 00:07:36,370 Lexical resource. 108 00:07:36,390 --> 00:07:37,680 Number two, grammar. 109 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:39,240 Three pronunciation. 110 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,560 For which of those four areas that you think you're most weakened. 111 00:07:44,810 --> 00:07:47,580 I feel that pronunciation and grammar. 112 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,040 Yes, for a way. 113 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:49,880 Yeah. 114 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:51,170 Pronunciation and grammar. 115 00:07:51,170 --> 00:07:51,830 You're right. 116 00:07:51,830 --> 00:07:58,790 Those are the two that you need the most work on in terms of your fluency. 117 00:07:59,570 --> 00:08:01,310 Your fluency is really fine. 118 00:08:01,310 --> 00:08:03,710 There really wasn't any hesitation. 119 00:08:04,070 --> 00:08:07,160 You sounded very relaxed when you were speaking. 120 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,260 There were not any long pauses. 121 00:08:09,650 --> 00:08:12,920 You were able to when you wanted to. 122 00:08:13,370 --> 00:08:18,080 You were able to speak at length on on most of the questions. 123 00:08:18,170 --> 00:08:21,590 But sometimes you gave a really short answer. 124 00:08:22,550 --> 00:08:24,620 And you never want to do that. 125 00:08:25,850 --> 00:08:29,480 You never you never want to give, like, a one sentence answer and stop. 126 00:08:30,650 --> 00:08:36,380 Typically typically speaking, in part one, you're trying to get for each one of those questions, 127 00:08:36,380 --> 00:08:37,580 you're trying to give an answer. 128 00:08:37,580 --> 00:08:39,290 There's 2 to 3 sentences. 129 00:08:40,460 --> 00:08:44,660 In part number three, you're trying to give an answer to each one of those questions. 130 00:08:44,660 --> 00:08:46,850 That's maybe 3 to 4 sentences. 131 00:08:47,860 --> 00:08:57,370 Because the part number three questions are much deeper, or they would require more, more speaking 132 00:08:57,370 --> 00:08:59,350 to be able to give a full response. 133 00:08:59,350 --> 00:09:07,660 But, you know, I can tell from some of the other answers that you gave that you are capable of giving 134 00:09:08,740 --> 00:09:12,310 speaking at length, but sometimes you just chose not to. 135 00:09:12,940 --> 00:09:18,100 And what I want you to do is just is just consistently speak at length. 136 00:09:19,010 --> 00:09:19,360 Right. 137 00:09:19,370 --> 00:09:21,410 Remember, the truth doesn't matter. 138 00:09:22,310 --> 00:09:24,230 Sometimes you were trying to answer it. 139 00:09:24,230 --> 00:09:27,590 Think of the truth, and the truth doesn't matter. 140 00:09:28,460 --> 00:09:28,880 Right. 141 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:34,440 So if you couldn't think of a tree that you all grow in your country, you could have made it up right 142 00:09:34,570 --> 00:09:35,420 if you wanted to. 143 00:09:35,450 --> 00:09:36,680 You could have that apple tree. 144 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:37,640 Or it wouldn't. 145 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:38,540 It wouldn't matter. 146 00:09:38,540 --> 00:09:39,830 They're not grading the truth. 147 00:09:40,370 --> 00:09:45,020 They're grading how they're grading how well you speak English, so don't ever get caught up on the 148 00:09:45,020 --> 00:09:45,560 truth. 149 00:09:47,210 --> 00:09:50,480 In terms of your your lexical resource. 150 00:09:51,950 --> 00:10:00,350 One thing that I want you to work on is the more the way you really increase your lexical resource score, 151 00:10:00,590 --> 00:10:02,930 your vocabulary is showing range. 152 00:10:03,590 --> 00:10:09,590 So for example, you probably repeated the word child at least 15 times. 153 00:10:11,060 --> 00:10:11,560 Right. 154 00:10:11,570 --> 00:10:14,960 You repeated the word learn probably about ten times. 155 00:10:16,460 --> 00:10:22,040 And then you repeated the way you open your sentence is yes, for sure. 156 00:10:22,250 --> 00:10:23,330 Yes, for sure. 157 00:10:23,330 --> 00:10:24,350 That I probably heard. 158 00:10:24,350 --> 00:10:28,790 Yes, for sure about six, about six or seven times. 159 00:10:28,940 --> 00:10:32,120 So it's not that it's wrong. 160 00:10:32,150 --> 00:10:33,700 It's not that it's wrong. 161 00:10:33,710 --> 00:10:36,320 It's just that you're not showing them range. 162 00:10:36,870 --> 00:10:37,150 Right. 163 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:41,390 If they if they hear the same words over and over and over again, they're not hearing range. 164 00:10:41,390 --> 00:10:46,130 And that's what's going to affect you in terms of your pronunciation. 165 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,310 And this just goes with where you're from, right? 166 00:10:49,460 --> 00:10:55,730 All of my students that I have that are from Venezuela, Colombia, anywhere of that that northern part 167 00:10:55,940 --> 00:11:00,500 of South America, they have trouble with the word V and the word M. 168 00:11:01,130 --> 00:11:07,250 So, for example, when you when you're saying environment, you're pronouncing it like a W and when 169 00:11:07,250 --> 00:11:15,590 you're saying the word time, people from Venezuela, Colombia, that area, you all in English, we 170 00:11:15,590 --> 00:11:17,600 say a hard time. 171 00:11:18,500 --> 00:11:24,530 And it's almost like when you say the word time, you say it almost like say the word time. 172 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:25,070 Go ahead. 173 00:11:27,270 --> 00:11:27,960 Time. 174 00:11:28,290 --> 00:11:28,890 Time? 175 00:11:29,820 --> 00:11:30,160 Yeah. 176 00:11:30,270 --> 00:11:31,500 Make em hard. 177 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:32,310 Time. 178 00:11:33,070 --> 00:11:33,700 Time. 179 00:11:33,970 --> 00:11:35,050 Yeah, that was good. 180 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:36,190 That was. 181 00:11:36,190 --> 00:11:37,720 That's how you want to be able to say it. 182 00:11:38,260 --> 00:11:38,560 All right. 183 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:44,860 Now, like you say so that more deals with with issues of pronunciation. 184 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:53,830 Now, I will say, in terms of your lexical resource, there were some times where you had to be careful 185 00:11:53,830 --> 00:11:57,250 with your word choice and and how you say something. 186 00:11:57,250 --> 00:12:02,360 So, for example, you said, I have never read books in a ship. 187 00:12:02,380 --> 00:12:04,390 I have never read books. 188 00:12:05,860 --> 00:12:11,020 But overall, the weakest part was the grammar, and that's where you have to work on it. 189 00:12:11,410 --> 00:12:16,540 So, for example, also I'm sorry, one more thing about lexical. 190 00:12:17,350 --> 00:12:22,870 Like when you were talking about the kind of books that you read, you should have said technical books. 191 00:12:23,020 --> 00:12:26,950 I think you said something like technician books or something like that, but technical books. 192 00:12:29,050 --> 00:12:33,460 Now for grammar, this is where we had some issues. 193 00:12:33,460 --> 00:12:37,330 Like, for example, you would say things like, not too much good. 194 00:12:38,140 --> 00:12:43,050 When I was a child, I prefer and that's where you get in with a verb, a verb tense. 195 00:12:43,050 --> 00:12:44,650 You should be talking about the past. 196 00:12:44,860 --> 00:12:46,420 So it should be preferred. 197 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:49,670 We talked about farming. 198 00:12:49,670 --> 00:12:56,240 You said at the main job to my people, you would say it's the main job of my people or the main job 199 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:57,380 for my people. 200 00:12:58,790 --> 00:13:00,740 This job is not very good. 201 00:13:00,770 --> 00:13:03,770 It is not very good pay. 202 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:08,210 And that would really be this job doesn't have very good pay. 203 00:13:09,140 --> 00:13:10,430 I have never did it. 204 00:13:10,430 --> 00:13:11,870 I have never done it. 205 00:13:12,650 --> 00:13:17,240 We had we had some issues like that. 206 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,630 Also, those same some of those same grammar issues came up in part two. 207 00:13:20,870 --> 00:13:23,270 It was a gift that give me my mother. 208 00:13:24,710 --> 00:13:26,330 My mother is. 209 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:27,350 You should have the article. 210 00:13:27,380 --> 00:13:31,040 A very religious person she give me, she gave me. 211 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:36,140 And so really there was a lot of that that kept coming up with with grammar. 212 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:41,420 So one thing you can do when you're working on your own and practicing speaking on your own. 213 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,300 A company called Otter. 214 00:13:44,570 --> 00:13:45,890 I Otter. 215 00:13:45,890 --> 00:13:54,050 I they have a great phone application and a PC application that when you speak, it will transcribe 216 00:13:54,050 --> 00:14:00,170 what you're saying because you have to really spend some time transcribing what you're saying. 217 00:14:00,170 --> 00:14:06,860 So you can look look at your sentences, like look at what you're saying and then correct yourself. 218 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:13,160 You can use the Grammarly app or something like that to correct your grammar and then say it again using 219 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,540 the correct grammar, because that's really your own to me. 220 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:23,030 That's the only thing that will stop you from getting a seven or a score higher than a seven is your 221 00:14:23,030 --> 00:14:23,570 grammar. 222 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:25,900 Right. 223 00:14:26,170 --> 00:14:27,190 Is your grandmother. 224 00:14:27,670 --> 00:14:33,010 You know that I didn't really I didn't really hear a lot of issues with pronunciation, except for, 225 00:14:33,010 --> 00:14:36,850 like I said, the issue is dealing with M and V. 226 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,520 Other than that, you said most of your words correctly. 227 00:14:39,790 --> 00:14:45,400 But there was a lot of repeating the same words in terms of lexical, sometimes using the word wrong 228 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:51,280 word form in terms of lexical, and then some foundational grammar mistakes that you have to work on. 229 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:55,570 But that's that's that's my those are my initial thoughts. 230 00:14:55,990 --> 00:14:57,370 Do you have any questions at all? 231 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,010 No, actually, it's an amazing feat. 232 00:15:01,010 --> 00:15:04,120 But I want to try. 233 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,680 I want to get my death at the end of this year. 234 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:13,720 I have some moms, but I am trying to establish a little more every day for sure. 235 00:15:13,730 --> 00:15:15,260 I need to improve a lot. 236 00:15:16,130 --> 00:15:16,520 All right. 237 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,320 Well, Louise, thank you very much. 238 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,240 And you'll get an email from me in a couple of days. 239 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,590 It gives you more and more of an idea on scoring and things like that. 240 00:15:25,010 --> 00:15:25,880 Thank you so much. 241 00:15:26,390 --> 00:15:28,070 This was an amazing opportunity. 242 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:28,370 All right. 243 00:15:28,460 --> 00:15:30,320 Thanks for joining me and thanks for your help, Louise. 244 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:30,620 Take care. 245 00:15:30,650 --> 00:15:31,430 Have a great day. 246 00:15:32,060 --> 00:15:32,670 Have a good day. 247 00:15:32,690 --> 00:15:33,290 Bye bye. 248 00:15:33,340 --> 00:15:33,560 Okay. 249 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:33,960 Bye bye.